Staying

Testing Baked Beetroots

Drying Candied Chilli Pieces for Garnish

Some of the 125 variations

Tweezering the canapés and garnishes into the boxes

Mike standing guard over boxed bites until service

Detail of boxes showing edible printed excerpts from Staying text

Boxes showing bites. At this stage the contents of the boxes were beginning to suffer from the heat of the lights above. They stood strong until service began and throughout !

The audience were talked through the boxes and their contents at the table, some removing the food with their fingers, others braving the whole package.

The Menu

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Any of:

  Pomegranate Jelly

  Bitter Chocolate Truffle

  Butter-poached Carrot

  Baked Beetroot

  Raw Pear

Garnished with any of:

  Candied Chilli

  Powdered Salt Caramel

  Dried Lavender Flowers

  Stem Ginger

  Orange Zest

Sitting on leaves of:

 Mint

 Coriander

 Flat-Leaf Parsley

 Rocket

 Basil

Recipe Test + Box Assembly for Artangel Project

                                           Testing Pomegranate Jelly

                                            Bitter Chocolate Truffle

Printing box maps on rice paper with edible inks.

                                            Box designs ready to be cut

First day of cutting the boxes, using surgical scalpels

                                           300 boxes, 6 hands, 1. 5 days

Coriander, Butter-poached Carrots, Carrot Toffee, Sea Salt